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IMPORTANT FACTS. 



OUNDED January 7, 1884. 

Average age at admission, 14 years. 
Average age at graduation, 173/i years. 

Minimum requirements for admission, comple- 
tion of the 7B grade of the public schools. 

Course of study and work, 3 years. 

AH students pursue the same course for 2 years. 
In the third year the student specializes in Wood- 
working, Pattern Making, Metal Working, Instru- 
ment Making, Mechanical Drawing, Architectural 
Drawing, Wood Carving, Free-hand Drawing or 
Applied Electricity. 

The evening Trade School, founded in 1903, 
gives a high grade course in Tool Making, In- 
strument Making, and Pattern Making, with 
Mechanical Drawing and Mathematics, to men 
engaged in these trades. 

Enrolment, Day School, 280. 

Enrolment, Evening School, 70. 

Total Graduates, Day School, 805. - 

Total Graduates, Evening School, 51. 

Wards of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum grad- 
uated, 55. 

Wards of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian So- 
ciety graduated, 23. 

Non-Jewish students at present enrolled, 16. 

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CLASS OF 1890 



Average class room floor space per student, in- 
cluding benches, drawing tables, and machinery, 
43 square feet. 

Average cost of buildings and equipment per 
student, $450. 

Average annual cost per student for mainte- 
nance, $113. 



(Occupations of 782 Hibing 2Dap 
^cliool oBratiuates 



Pattern and model makers 

Machinists 

Instrument-makers and general mechanics. 

Electricians and electrical mechanics 

Draughtsmen 

Architects 

Manufacturers 

Foremen and Superintendents 



4 per cent. 
7 

10 

i6 

i6 

4 

2 
II 



Forty-two per cent, of the graduates who have 
been out of the school lo years or more have risen 
to be foremen, superintendents, managers, or 
proprietors. 

Teachers and students 5 per cent. 

Clerical positions 19 " " 

Reports not received 6 " " 

All Evening School graduates are employed at their 
trades. 



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jEietortj of (J^ratiuates 
33a^ §)ct)ool 



Nmnber of 
Qradnates 



Deceased 



Present 

Average 

Age 



Present 
Average 
Weekly 
Inoome 



1886 


19 


2 


39 


$50.00 


1888 


11 


1 


38 


38.00 


1889 


17 


1 


37 


40.00 


1890 


16 


1 


36 


50.00 


1891 


19 


- 


35 


42.00 


1892 


35 


4 


34 


35.00 


1893 


26 


2 


33 


32.00 


1894 


31 


- 


32 


37.00 


1895 


33 


2 


31 


37.00 


1896 


34 


1 


30 


38.00 


1897 


19 


2 


29 


35.00 


1898 


30 


- 


28 


29.00 


1899 


31 


4 


27 


29.00 


1900 


35 


- 


26 


28.00 


1901 


40 


- 


25 


26.00 


1902 


34 


- 


24 


24.00 


1903 


46 


2 


23 


20.00 


1904 


62 


- 


22 


18.00 


1905 


63 


- 


21 


17.00 


1906 


59 


1 


20 


12.00 


1907 


73 


- 


19 


10.25 


1908 


82 


1 


18 


7.25 


Total 


805 


24 







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T is in the history of education as in the his- 
tory of nations that there are nodes mark- 
ing off periods of intensified thought, 
development and change. One of these nodes, in 
this country, began thirty years ago, soon after the 
Paris Exposition of 1867, with the introduction 
of industrial drawing and tool work into our school 
courses. American manufacturers who visited that 
exposition saw that France was far ahead of us, 
both in artistic design and in execution of work. 
Several conferences, attended both by manufact- 
urers and by educators, resulted in the introduc- 
tion of drawing into a few of the schools of New 
England. 

At the Centennial Exposition, held in Philadel- 
phia in 1876, there were brought together, side 
by side, the products and industries of most of 
the civilized countries. Our people recognized 
the superiority of foreign manufactures, and a 
few who sought for the cause found it in their 
school systems. But good schools, like other good 
institutions, must be the result of a process of evo- 
lution through experience, and experience requires 
time. The people themselves had to be taught 
the necessity of modifying the school curricula, 
popular prejudice in favor of the old and against 
the new had to be overcome, and teachers had to 

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THE HEBREW TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, NEW YORK 

34 and 36 Stuyvesant Street 

Erected in 1896 



be trained. These changes, though slow during 
the twenty years following the Centennial Exposi- 
tion, have taken place with exceeding rapidity 
during the past ten years. 

In the United States, our own was one of the 
first schools of secondary grade to establish sys- 
tematic courses in the use and handling of tools. 
To-day there are more than six hundred separate 
industrial, agricultural, trade and technical schools 
in this country. 

The first step toward the organization of the 
Hebrew Technical Institute was taken shortly 
after the rapid immigration of Russian Jews began 
in consequence of their expatriation in 1880. 

At the annual meeting of the United Hebrew 
Charities, October 28, 1883, ^ resolution was 
passed inviting the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, and 
the Hebrew Free School Asociation, now a part 
of the Educational Alliance, to appoint committees 
to meet a committee from the Charities for the 
consideration of some project for promoting indus- 
trial education among Jewish boys. 

The committees from the three societies met on the 
evening of November 7, 1883, at the residence of Mr. Julius 
Bien, 321 West 57th Street. There were present: 

Julius Bien, Jacob H. Schiff, 

Edward Lauterbach, Uriah Herrmann, 

Julius Nathan, Louis Strasburger, 

Jacob Korn, Samuel Greenbaum, 

James H. Hoffman, David L. Einstein, 

Leo Schlesinger, Manuel A. Kursheedt. 

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LUCAS A. STEINAM MEMORIAL BUILDING 

Erected in 1901 



Mr. Bien called the meeting to order. Mr. Schlesinger 
was chosen chairman and Mr. Kursheedt secretary. A 
general discussion was held upon the advisability of open- 
ing a school for instruction in mechanical drawing and 
carpentry, but no definite action was taken. At an 
adjourned meeting of the conference held Nov. ii, 1883, a 
resolution offered by Mr. Jacob H. Schiff was adopted: 

That a society be organized under the title of 
the New York Association for the Promotion of 
Industrial and Agricultural pursuits among the 
Jews; or a similar title, and that the societies 
represented at the conference be requested to 
appoint delegates to meet and organize such 
society, and that the said societies be requested to 
contribute to the funds of the new society the 
following sums: 

Hebrew Orphan Asylum $2,000 

United Hebrew Charities 2,000 

Hebrew Free School Association 1,000 

Under the resolution, delegates were appointed by the 
three societies to organize the new society, and at a meet- 
ing held November 25, 1883, with Mr. Schlesinger chair- 
man and Mr. Kursheedt secretary, these resolutions were 
adopted: 

I. RESOLVED, that this meeting hereby resolves 
itself into a society for the purpose of promot- 
ing industrial pursuits among Israelites. 

II. RESOLVED, that a committee of three be 
appointed to propose a name for the society, 
to draft by-laws for the management of its 
affairs and to prepare a certificate of its incor- 
poration. 

III. RESOLVED, that the society open a school for 
the technical education of boys and that a com- 
mittee of five be appointed to report upon a 
course of studies for such school and rules and 
regulations for its management. 

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At a meeting held Dec. 23, 1883, it was decided 
that the name of the new society should be the 

HEBREW TECHNICAL INSTITUTE. 

A committee was appointed "to open a prelim- 
inary session of the school at 206 East Broadway, 
with power to expend not over $250, for drawing 
tables and instruments, and to employ not over 
three teachers at salaries not exceeding $54 per 
week in the aggregate." 




EXHIBIT AT THE ''EDUCATIONAL FAIR," J 895 



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Certificate of fneotporation 



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E, LEO SCHLESINGER, GUSTAVUS A. GOLD- 
SMITH, JAMES H. HOFFMAN, SOLOMON 
WOOLF, JACOB KORN, OTTO A. MOSES, 
AND MANUEL A. KURSHEEDT, of the City 
of New York, all of us being citizens of the United States, 
and citizens of and residents within the State of New 
York, desiring to associate ourselves for the purpose of 
establishing and maintaining an institution for the tech- 
nical education of Israelites, in pursuance of the Act of the 
Legislature of said State entitled, *'An Act for the Incor- 
poration of Benevolent, Charitable, Scientific and Mission- 
ary Societies," passed April 12th (Twelfth), 1848, and the 
several acts amendatory thereof, do hereby make this 
Certificate, and state as follows: 

First. 

The name or title by which such Society shall be known 
in law is, the "Hebrew Technical Institute." 

Second. 

The particular business and objects of such Society 
shall be to establish and maintain an Institution for the 
technical education of Israelites. 

Third. 

The Directors to manage such society shall be fifteen 
in number. 

Fourth. 

The names of the Directors of such Society for the 
first year of its existence are as follows: 

Henry S. Allen, Manuel A. Kursheedt, 

Julius Bien, Marcus Marx, 

Arnold W. Brunner, Otto A. Moses, 

David L. Einstein, Julian Nathan, 

Leopold Gershel, Leo Schlesinger, 

Gustavus A. Goldsmith, Solomon Woolf, 

James H. Hoffman, Jacob H. Schiff. 

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Fifth. 

The business of such Society shall be conducted and 
its principal office shall be located in the City and County 
of New York. 

Dated New York, January 9, 1884. 



AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE HEBREW 

TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, LOCATED IN 

THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 

Approved by the Governor, February 4, 1892. Passed, 

three-fifths being present. 
The People of the State of New York, represented in 

Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 

Section i. The acts of the persons who have hereto- 
fore acted, or are now acting, as directors of the Hebrew 
Technical Institute, a corporation created under the gen- 
eral laws of this State, and conducting its principal opera- 
tions in the City of New York, shall be as valid and have 
the same force and effect as if the number of such directors 
had always been the number provided by its certificate of 
incorporation, and as if all such acting directors had been 
duly elected by the members of such corporation. 

Section 2. The by-laws of such corporation may pro- 
vide for the appointment of directors thereof by any 
other corporation or association at any time contributing 
to its funds. 

Section 3. The number of directors of such corporation 
shall be twenty-one, and may be so divided into three 
classes and elected or appointed, so that the term of 
office of the directors in each class shall expire annually; 
and the members of any class may be elected or appointed 
for any term not exceeding three years. 

Section 4. This act shall take effect immediately. 



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AN ACT TO EXTEND THE RIGHTS AND POWERS 
OF THE HEBREW TECHNICAL INSTITUTE 

Approved by the Governor, March 21, 1900. Passed, 

three-fifths being present. 
The People of the State of New York, represented in 

Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 

Section i. The Hebrew Technical Institute is hereby 
authorized and empowered to establish and maintain an 
institution for the technical education of Israelites and 
others, and the objects of said institute are hereby enlarged 
accordingly. 

Section 2. The Hebrew Technical Institute is hereby 
empowered to take, hold, and receive any property, real 
or personal, by virtue of any single devise or bequest 
contained in any last will or testament of any person 
whatsoever, whether made heretofore or to be made here- 
after, the clear annual income of which devise or bequest 
shall not exceed the sum of fifty thousand dollars, all 
other provisions of law, except as to the amount of such 
annual income, to continue in force and effect with 
reference to said corporation. 

Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately. 



Under the certificate of incorporation, the board of 
directors met January 13, 1884, adopted by-laws and 
elected officers. 

James H. Hoffman .... President. 

Leo Schlesinger Vice-President. 

David L. Einstein .... Treasurer. 

Manuel A. Kursheedt . . . Secretary. 



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FORGING, 1908 




Opening of t|)e institute 

HE HEBREW TECHNICAL INSTI- 
TUTE WAS FORMALLY OPENED 
MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1884, at 206 
East Broadway, when 24 boys were enrolled, and 
organized into two classes for instruction in 
Mechanical Drawing, Free-hand Drawing, English 
subjects and Mathematics. The Wood-working 
shop was opened in March of the same year. 

As might be expected, frequent changes in the 
roll of students occurred in these early days, and 
the first roll-book has such notes as these: "Left, 
because his father does not want him to be a 
carpenter." "Left, as his parents want him to 
follow a 'gentlemanly calling'.'* "Left because a 
pistol was taken from him." 

In Russia the work of a carpenter is looked down 
upon as one of the lowest, and so it was not easy 
to induce these early immigrant parents to send 
their boys to a school to learn "carpentry"; but 
when a few boys were induced to attend and they 
themselves realized the interest and delight in 
using tools and making real objects, they told 
their friends, and soon the new school began to 
grow in popularity. 

A history of the early days of the school would 
not be complete without recording the name of 
one of its many friends and workers, Miss Annie 

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SELECTIONS FROM THE FIRST YEAR 
JOINERY EXERCISES, 1908 



S. Kantrowitz, now Mrs. Siegfried Martus, who 
went from house to house to visit parents, to in- 
duce them to send their boys to a school where 
they might learn the use of tools and the beginnings 
of a trade. 

It was at once recognized that pupils must be 
kept at school the full day if the proper influence 
over them was to be gained; hence the course of 
study and work was so planned that they would 
not lose the common branches of English, mathe- 
matics, history, and geography, taught in the 
public schools. 

On September i, 1884, there were 27 pupils en- 
rolled, and by January i, 1885, 45. There were 
then 4 teachers, i in each of the departments of 
English, Mechanical Drawing, Free-hand Drawing 
and Wood-working. 

The interest soon evinced by the pupils led to the 
purchase of a few wood-turning lathes for the shop, 
and in the early part of 1885 a progressive course 
in wood-turning formed a part of the curriculum. 

The Children's Industrial Exhibition was held in 
April, 1886, in Cosmopolitan Hall, Broadway and 
40th Street, New York, at which was exhibited 
the work of both girls and boys from many schools 
throughout the country. The Institute exhibited 
specimens of joinery work, turning, pattern- 
making, clay models, mechanical and free-hand 
drawings. Fourteen medals were awarded to our 

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WOOD TURNING, SECOND YEAR, 1908 



pupils, among which were first prizes for carpentry 
and wood-turning. 

A decided stimulus was given to industrial 
education by this exhibition, and two weeks later, 
on April 22, 1886, a large gathering of Jewish 
people met at Temple Emanu-El in the interest of 
the school. It was on this occasion that the Hon. 
Carl Schurz delivered his noted address on "Tech- 
nical Education." Other speakers were Mr. James 
H. Hoffman, Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, Dr. Otto A. 
Moses, Jesse Seligman, and the Rev. Dr. Gustav 
Gottheil. As a result of the meeting a Member- 
ship Society was then and there organized of Mem- 
bers who should contribute $10 annually, and 
Patrons $25. About 200 signed their names at once. 
The Society has since added the class of Donors, 
who contribute $100 annually. The total member- 
ship has now grown to 2,400. 

Before the organization of the Membership 
Society the school was supported by private con- 
tributions. 



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PATTERN MAKING, THIRD YEAR, 1908 



ome of lift ^cfjool 



Jan. 7, 1884. 206 East Broadway. 

May, 1884. 129 Crosby Street, 6th and 7th floors. 

Feb. 18, 1887. 34 and 36 Stuyvesant Street. 

1892. Addition of first Ninth Street building. 

May 28, 1896. Lafayette Place, temporary quarters. 

Dec. 28, 1896. New Building, 34 and 36 Stuyvesant Street. 

1901. Lucas A. Steinam Memorial B'ld'g erected. 

1905. Sixth Story to the Stuyvesant St. B'ld'g built. 

While the first session of the school was started 
at 2o6 East Broadway in January, 1884, it was soon 
realized that the rooms there were inadequate, and 
four months later the sixth and seventh floors of a 
factory building at 129 Crosby Street were rented 
from Mr. Leo Schlesinger, who was to furnish heat 
and power. There the school continued from May, 
1884, to February, 1887, when a private house. No. 
36 Stuyvesant Street, was purchased, also the lot, 
No. 34, adjoining, on which a three-loft shop build- 
ing was erected. The school moved into its new 
home on February 18, 1887. 

At no time in its history has the school had a 
sudden, abnormal growth; but its increase in 
students and in development has been steady and 
sturdy. Within 5 years, by 1892, its commodious 
quarters were outgrown, the principals office was 
divided to make room for another class room, and 
during that year a three-story building was erected 
on the Ninth Street side of the property, in the 
immediate rear of the Stuyvesant Street buildings 

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HEBREW TECHNICAL INSTITUTE 

34 and 36 Stuyvesant Street 

1887 — 1896 



and connecting with them. The steam and power 
plant was enlarged and placed in the basement of 
that building, the first floor was used as an 
Assembly room, and adjustable shelves were placed 
around the sides of the room for the wood-carving 
classes. The second and third floors were rented 
out to the Baron de Hirsch Trade School. 

In December, 1895, an Educational Fair, held at 
Madison Square Garden, netted $150,000, and with 
the $50,000 allotted to the Technical Institute, a 
five-story school building, 50 by 40 feet, was erected 
in 1896 on the site of the two old buildings, 34 and 

36 Stuyvesant Street. 

The school moved into its new building December 
28, 1896, where at first there was ample room for all 
its classes, but the steady student growth soon made 
another step necessary. Then Mr. and Mrs. 
Abraham Steinam came to our relief, and erected, 
for the use of the Institute, the handsome six-story 
building, 40 by 50 feet, on Ninth Street, in memory 
of their son. 

The Lucas A.. Steinam Memorial building was 
completed and occupied in 1901. Four years later 
the school was again crowded, when, through the 
generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer L. Schiff, 
another story, the sixth, was added to the Stuy- 
vesant Street building in 1905, affording temporary 
relief. 

The daily attendance during the past year, 1908, 

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of 275 boys is again crowding our rooms to their 
maximum capacity, and another enlargement must 
be made in the near future or many students 
must be denied admission. 




ABRAHAM STEINAM 



SUMMER VACATIONS 

The officials of the school early realized the 
futility of the long period of idleness for the pupils 
during the customary vacation of ten weeks, and 
planned at once for a summer course. In this, 

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as in many other instances, the Hebrew Technical 
Institute has been a pioneer. During the summer 
of 1886, 105 pupils attended. Accordingly, the 
school calendar was changed to allow for a 
summer session of six weeks, from g to 12 o'clock, 
during July and August. 

SUMMER TRAMPS 

Many of the Technical Institute boys have 
never had the privilege of going to the country 
and seeing something besides bare walls, crowded 
streets, and penny-in-the-slot shows. 

The lessons that Nature teaches her children 
have been denied to them, for, with the exception 
of brief visits to our parks, they are forced to 
grow up, little realizing the delights of a healthful, 
out-door life in the country. 

Tramping parties have, therefore, been organ- 
ized, consisting of 10 boys with a competent guide. 
These have taken trips through New Jersey, 
Pennsylvania and New York, walking 200 miles 
in two weeks, visiting shops, factories, mines and 
places of historic interest. Walking 10 to 20 
miles a day, climbing hills, eating at farm-houses, 
picking fruit from the trees, sleeping under a tent 
or in a hay-mow, and singing themselves to sleep, 
is an experience that city boys will long remember. 



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LUNCHEONS 



The Technical Institute was one of the first to 
recognize the value of a wholesome mid-day lunch- 
eon, and since February, 1887, it has furnished a 
substantial luncheon for all its students and in- 
structors. An experienced chef is in charge of 
this department. The bill of fare varies from day 




LUNCH ROOM, 1887 

to day, and, unlike many lunch rooms recently 
opened in schools, where pupils buy what they like 
best, usually sweets, we serve the same food to 
each boy, placing it on regularly set tables during 
the three or four minutes before the boys enter 

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the dining room at noon. A bountiful supply is 
served, and rarely is any part of it left. 

BATHING 

When the new school building was erected in 
1896, shower baths were provided, and from that 
time bathing has formed a regular part of the 
school program. A group goes to the bath room 
from some class room every thirty minutes, from 
9:30 to 12 and from 2 to 3:30 o'clock 

SUMMER EXCURSIONS 

Every year, since the beginning of the school, 
one day in August has been set aside for the school 
picnic. This has been made possible through the 
kindness of Mrs. Esther Herrman, who is a very 
warm friend to the boys of the school. In many 
other ways, too, has Mrs. Herrman shown her 
interest in the Institute. 

EXTENSION WORK 

In 1894 the Institute started an afternoon class 
in wood-working for boys attending the public 
schools; but the irregular attendance, the frequent 
changes of pupils and the subsequent need of the 
room for our day school classes caused the class 
to be given up. The principle, however, was not 
abandoned, and in 1906, upon the recommendation 
of the Institute, afternoon classes were started at 
the Educational Alliance, the Hebrew Orphan 

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Asylum and the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian 
Society, for the purpose of preparing pupils for 
admission to the second year of our course. 

After the erection of the Steinam Memorial 
building, it was thought that so large a plant 
should be utilized during the evening, and in 
January, 1903, evening classes in tool-making and 
mechanical drawing were organized. The plan was 
to give mechanics a systematic training in their 
particular lines of work, thus obviating some of 
the evils of the present system of shop operations, 
whereby a workman is confined to the operation 
of a single machine. 

The instrument-making shop was opened in 1904 
for evening work, and the pattern-making shop in 
1907. Mathematics has also been added to the 
course for the men who most need the subject. 



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(i^fficers 



^np%lHE Technical Institute has been fortunate in 
•^ J its choice of directors and officers. 



The fatherly care, and the keen insight 
of James H. Hoffman, the first president, who 
served until his death in igoo, will long be remem- 
bered and felt by the early students who knew him, 
and by the teachers and fellow directors who worked 
with him. 

Most of the directors have served for long periods. 
Mr. Joseph B. Bloomingdale was elected a director 
in 1886, vice-president in 1891, and president in 
1900. His ability was recognized from the first, 
and he served faithfully and well until his death in 
1904. Under the able management, first of Mr. 
Joseph L. Buttenwieser and then of Dr. Morris 
Loeb, the school has steadily progressed to the 
present time. 

The Institute has been ahead of the times. It 
has been progressive, yet no step has been taken 
without due deliberation. 

Order, regularity, and discipline marked the new 
school from the time Dr. Henry M. Leipziger be- 
came the Director and leading spirit almost im- 
mediately after its opening. The early days of the 
pioneer school needed a master hand, a trained 
educator, a disciplinarian, one who understood 

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social conditions and who had the courage to under- 
take the solution of a new educational problem. 

The school has been a force not only in our 
Jewish Community, but it has led, and pointed out 
the way to train the hand as well as the head. The 
principles it has advocated and followed are now 
being recognized by educators throughout our land, 
as shown in the rapid movement to establish indus- 
trial and technical schools. 




WORK OF STUDENTS, 1895 



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([Officers antr 33irettors» 1909 

(Date indicates year of election as a director.) 

OFFICERS 

President Morris Loeb 1892 

First Vice-President. , . .Abraham Steinam. . . 1888 

Second Vice-President. .Louis B. Marks 1903 

f David L. Einstein 

■r^ . , ^ Julius Bien 
Vice-President ^^ ^ . ^t 

(^ Mrs. Esther Herrman 

Treasurer Mortimer L. Schiff . . . 1900 

Secretary Eugene E. Spiegelberg. , 1905 

DIRECTORS 

Edward Lauterbach 1887 

Henry M. Leipziger 1897 

Isaac Stiebel 1898 

Gustave R. Tuska 1900 

Louis Seeberger 1902 

Leopold Plaut 1903 

Ferdinand G. Loeb 1906 

Emanuel Einstein 1908 

Joseph L. Buttenwieser 1894 

Samuel Hirsh 1903 

S. Morrill Banner 1899 

Irving Lehman 1900 

Louis Kahn 1903 

Mrs. Joel E. Hyams 1905 

Charles Hartman 1907 

Julius Lewisohn 1908 



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MACHINE SHOP WORK, 190 



j^asit mivzctot$ of ti^e^SinjStitutc 

*James H. Hoffman 1884-1900 

*Henry S. Allea 1884-1886 

Julius Nathan 1884-1886 

*Marcus Marx 1884-1886 

Jacob Korn 1884-1888 

Solomon Woolf ' 'f '^''!^I 

/ 1895-1898 

*Otto A. Moses 1884-1892 

David L. Einstein 1884-1897 

Manuel A. Kursheedt 1884-1885 

Gustavus A. Goldsmith 1884-1885 

Isaac Hendricks 1884-1885 

Arnold W. Brunner 1884-1888 

Leopold Gershel. , 1884-1888 

Julius Bien 1884-1903 

Leo Schlesinger 1884-1898 

Jacob H. Schiff 1884-1884 

Henry M. Leipziger 1886-1888 

*Simon Borg 1886-1900 

M. Gernsheim 1886-1888 

*Benjamin F. Peixotto 1886-1900 

*Benjamin Russak 1886-1891 

Julius Goldsmith 1886-1887 

M. W. Benjamin 1886-1887 

*Herman Herrman i885-i888 

*Joseph B. Bloomingdale 1886-1934 

*Meyer Thalmessinger 1886-1898 

*Mcrris Tuska 1886-1895 

*Abraham Wolff 1887-1888 

♦Leopold Wallach 1888-1891 

Julius J. Lyons 1888-1890 

Sol B. Solomon 1888-1895 

*Meyer S. Isaacs 1889-1891 

Henry Rice 1889-1895 

Abraham Herman 1889-1894 

*Jesse Seligman 1889-1894 

* Deceased. 



Joseph Wetzler 1891-1903 

*George Heyman 1891-1899. 

James Loeb 1891-1892 

Louis S. Brush 1891-1892 

Julius Goldmap 1891-1892 

Louis Stern 1892-1894 

Isaac Blum 1892-1892 

Benno Loewy 1892-1895 

Julius Goldschmidt 1894-1898 

*Julius Sands 1894-1903 

*Bernhard Mainzer 1894-1895 

Mrs. Isidor Lewi 1895-1895 

*Theodore Seligman 1895-1901 

Harry H. Meyer 1895-1899 

Mrs. Henry Seligman 1895-1905 

*Simon Goldenberg 1895-1897 

Miss Miriam Fisher ^ 1897-1900 

' 1905-1908 

Charles Strauss 1897-1900 

Andrew Saks 1898-1898 

Samuel Hirsh 1898-1903 

Solomon H. Kohn 1898-1899 

Fred M. Stein 1899-1900 

Gustave Eckstein 1900-1906 

William I. Spiegelberg 1900-1901 

Mrs. Ludwig Dreyfuss 1900-1905 

Carl J. Ullmann iroo-1902 

Mrs. George L. Beer 1902-1903 

Daniel W. Seem n 1902-1903 

Benjamin Guggenheim 1903-1905 

Samuel Fleischman 1903-1906 

Alfred Nathan 1905-1907 

Isaac H. Klein 1906-1907 

* Deceased. 



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C^fficerjs from ti)z htiinnim of tl^^ 
Slnistftute 

PRESIDENTS 

* James H. Hoffman 1884- 1900 

^Joseph B. Bloomingdale 1900-1904 

Morris Loeb 1904-1905 

Joseph L. Buttenwieser 1905-1908 

Morris Loeb Since 1908 

FIRST VICE-PRESIDENTS 

Leo Schlesinger 1884-1886 

David L. Einstein 1886-1891 

*Joseph B. Bloomingdale \ 

I 1904-1904 

Morris Loeb j ^900-i904 

/ 1905-1908 

Abraham Steinam Since 1908 

SECOND VICE-PRESIDENTS 

*Otto A. Moses 1884-1892 

Sol B. Solomon 1892-1893 

Morris Loeb ( 1893-1894 

] I898-I9OO 

Leo Schlesinger 1894-1898 

Henry M. Leipziger 1900-1902 

Abraham Steinam 1902-1908 

Louis B. Marks Since 1908 

* Deceased 

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JAMES H. HOFFMAN (Deceased) 
President, 1884 — 1900 




JOSEPH B. BLOOMINGDALE (Deceased) 
President, 1900—1904 



TREASURERS 

David L. Einstein 1884-1886 

Leo Schlesinger 1886-1894 

Julius Goldschmidt 1894-1898 

Samuel Hirsh 1898-1903 

Mortimer L. Schiff Since 1903 

SECRETARIES 

Manuel A. Kursheedt 1884-1884 

Henry M. Leipziger 1884-1889 

Julius J. Lyons 1889-1890 

S. Morrill Banner 1903-1907 

Eugene E. Spiegelberg Since 1907 

CHAIRMEN OF INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE 

*Otto A. Moses 1884-1892 

Morris Loeb 1892-1904 

Louis B. Marks Since 1904 

MEDICAL ADVISORY STAFF 

Dr. Samuel Schneider Physician 

Dr. Julius Wolff Oculist 



Deceased. 

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JOSEPH L. BUTTENWIESER 
President, 1905-1908 




MORRIS LOEB 
President, 1904—1905 1908, in office 



Womtn'6 Committee 



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Ladies' Auxiliary Society was organized in 
1887 by Mrs. Lewis May, now Mrs. Isidor 
Lewi, who became its chairman, and 
Miss Miriam Fisher its secretary, with anual dues 
of $5, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of 
the luncheons. 

In 1894 the Ladies Auxiliary Society became the 
Women's Committee of the Institute, and two of its 
members were admitted to the Board of Directors. 
The scope of the Women's Committee was enlarged 
to take charge of the departments of the physical 
welfare of the pupils, the stipends and the lunch- 
eons. 

The influence of Mrs. Lewi during the early 
years is still apparent. 

The later accomplishments of the Committee are 
due especially to the energy of Mrs. Henry Selig- 
man, who succeeded Mrs. Lewi as chairman in 1897. 

CHAIRMEN OF WOMEN'S COMMITTEE 

Mrs. Isidor Lewi 1887-1897 

( 1897-1903 

Mrs. Henry Seligman ^ 

■^ ( 1904-1906 

Mrs. George L. Beer 1903-1904 

Mrs. Joel E. Hyams 1906-1908 

SECRETARY 

Miss Miriam Fisher 1887-1908 

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^financial Contiitio|n 

Real property $90,000.00 

Inventory o£ equipment 43,000.00 

$133,000.00 

Less mortgage 15,000.00 

$118,000.00 

Property of Lucas A. Steinam Fund 67,500.00 

Invested Specal Funds 118,940.00 

Endowment, H. T. I. Funds 92,560.00 

" Steinam Fund 50,000,00 

$447,000.00 



Sncottie, ;^aintenance aiccount anD special 
f\xn\x$, 1908 

Annual Contributions $29,567.85 

Contributing Societies 1,300.00 

Interest on invested Special Funds 2,478.04 

'' H. T. I. Endowment Funds 4,414-39 

" " Steinam Endowment Funds 2,100.00 

Donations 5,710.50 

Bequests applicable to current expenses 250.00 

Sundry receipts 1,741.36 

Deficit, during the year 1908 3,246.72 

$50,808.86 

€rpett^e^, ;^ainlenance a^ccount anti 
special 5Funti^, X908 

Instruction Committee, Day School $27,013.65 

" " Evening School. . . . 4,150.36 

House Committee 10,207.37 

Pupils' Welfare Committee 4,474-48 

Administration and publications 3,402.62 

Finance Committee 1,560.38 

$50,808.86 

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Ctiucation 

Henry M. Leipziger, Director. . 1884-1891 
*Otto A. Moses, Director 1891-1893 

Edgar S. Barney, Principal. .Since 1893 
* Deceased. 




HENRY M. LEIPZIGER, PH. D., LL. D. 



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departments of f nstruetion 

ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT 

Opened January 7, 1884 

This department includes English subjects, 
Geography, United States History, General His- 
tory, Jewish History, and Mathematics. 

The correlation between the English course and 
the shop work is close. 

Mathematics is studied through algebra, geom- 
etry, and plane trigonometry. 

There are regular periods for lectures on shop 
work, and visits to many shops are made by the 
special classes. 

A course of Monday morning lectures on ethics 
and general culture is given by the Jewish ministers 
of the city and by other speakers. 

INSTRUCTORS 

English, Geography, History, and Mathematics. 

S. Pulitzer Jan., 1884-Mar., 1884 

William Doggett. . .April, 1884-July, 1884 

F. Garrettson 1884-1886 

Louis Sommers 1885-1886 

Eugene H. Porter 1886-1887 

Benjamin B. Hoffman 1 886- 1887 

Edgar S. Barney Since 1887 

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MATHEMATICS 

Saul Badanes, Pd. D 1884-1898 

Boris D. Bogen, Pd. D 1896-1900 

Harold K. Stanley, A. B 1898-1902 

Jacob Friedland, B. S igoo-1903 

Milford Stern, B. S 1902-1903 

Moses Barrows, A. B 1903-1906 

Henry E. Foster, B. S Since 1902 

Frank T. Knowles, A. B Since 1906 







THE AUDITORIUM 

ENGLISH SUBJECTS 

Moses S. Levussove, B. S 1894-1896 

John M. Beadman 1896-1896 

Arthur M. Hubbard, A. B 1896-1902 

Norris H. Laughton, A. M . . . . Since 1902 



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jHecfjanical 3Bratoing 

Department opened January 7, 1884. 
Evening Classes, January 12, 1903. 

General course during the first two years, leading 
to special courses in architectural drawing and 
machine drawing in the third year. 




MECHANICAL DRAWING ROOM, 1887 



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PRESENT MECHANICAL DRAWING ROOM 

INSTRUCTORS 

J. F. Maurer Jan., 1884-May, 1884 

Joseph Cramptcn Nov., 1884-1885 

Albert Moritz 1885-1886 

Vaulx Carter 1886-1892 

Alfred R. Payne 1892-1893 

*Frank W. Sheldon, M. E 1893-1897 

John Weichsel, M. E., Pd. D.. .Since 1897 
Charles F. Kopp, B. S. (Assistant) 
Since ^903 

^=' Deceased. 

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jfree=^l)anti ©racing 

Department opened January 7, 1884. 

This course is pursued by all students during the 
first two years, and by those specializing in free- 
hand drawing and architectural drawing in the third 
year. 

INSTRUCTORS 

Henry Baerer. Jan., 1884-Apr., 1884 

Emanuel Semper. . . .May, 1884-Sept., 1884 

Robert Demcker Sept., 1884-1886 

Conrad R. Diehl 1886-1887 

F. M. Vogan 1888-1888 

John Todd Hill 1888-1889 

Ida B. Mandeville 1890-1891 

John Todd Hill 1891-1892 

Conrad R. Diehl. 1892-1893 

Alfred W. Mueser, Pd. D Since 1893 



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FREE-HAND DRAWING ROOM 



Department opened January 7, 1884. 

First work was in joinery. 

Wood-turning added in 1885. 

Pattern-making added in 1886. 

Foundry work added in 1900. 

Evening School Class, October, 1907. 

There are now two joinery rooms, one turning 
and pattern-making shop, and a foundry. 

Joinery is taught during the first two years, turn- 
ing in the second year, and special courses in archi- 
tectural wood-working, pattern-making and foundry 
work in the third. 




JOINERY SHOP, 1896 



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WOOD-TURNING AND P A T T E R N - M A K I N G SHOP 



INSTRUCTORS 

J. A. Duntze Mar., 1884-Oct., 1884 

George E. Tuthill 1884-1890 

George H. Stagen 1888-1896 

*John T. Ashley 1890-1890 

Henry Wheeler Since 1890 

John Morrison Since 1894 

*Deceased. 



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WoCO Car\)ing 

Department opened in 1886. 

This course is begun in the second year, and con- 
tinued in the third year by those who select carving 
for their special course, and by those who pursue 
pattern-making or architectural wood-working. 

INSTRUCTORS 

P. J. McKinley 1886-1887 

John Todd Hill 1891-1892 

Frederick Kaiffer 1893-1896 

Harold Madsen 1896- 1901 

Walter C. Michel 1902-1904 

Martin H. Jackson Since 1904 



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CARVED PANEL, THIRD YEAR, 190 



jEetal Woxkin^ 

Department opened in 1886. 

Forging shop opened in 1901. 

Evening Class in Tool Making, January 12, 1903. 

The course is begun in the second year with vise 
work, followed by exercises on the hand-turning 
lathe, shaper, planer, and drill-press. The third 
year includes the use of the engine-lathe, milling 
machine, and the universal grinder in general 
machine work and tool-making. 

INSTRUCTORS 

Joseph Bailey 1886-1892 

*John C. Brown 1892-1900 

Ernest V. Lallier 1899- 1904 

(Transferred to the Instrument-making 
department in 1904.) 
Henry B. Bartlett Since 1904 

^Deceased. 



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METAL-WORKING SHOP 



ijlnstrumettt JHaking 

Department opened in 1904. 
Evening Class, September, 1904. 

The metal-working course of the second year pre- 
cedes the special course of instrument-making in the 
third. This includes general machine and tool 
work, followed by the making of electrical and 
scientific instruments. 

INSTRUCTOR 
Ernest V. Lallier 




INSTRUMENT-MAKING SHOP 



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SHOP, 1908 



9lpplieti CU'ctricitp antj 

Department opened in 1887. 

A general course in physics is pursued in the first 
year, followed by laboratory work in mechanics and 
static electricity during the second. In the third 
year all students take laboratory work in electricity ; 
and those who select this subject for their special 
course perform about sixty experiments and tests, 
besides operating machines and doing considerable 
mechanical work. 




FIRST ELECTRICAL AND PHYSICAL 
LABORATORY, 1887 



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PRESENT LABORATORY, DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED 
ELECTRICITY AND PHYSICS 



INSTRUCTORS 

William Wallace Ker. Since 1887 

Julian A. Moses (physics and chemistry), 1891-1893 
Arthur R. Jensen (H.T.I., '06, Assistant), Since 1906 



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